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B. WALKER. DRAWERS No. 471,919. Pat ented Mar. 29,1892.

WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY! 7 NITE' TATES i ATEN FFICE.

DRAWERS.

-SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,919, dated March29, 1892 Application filed July 15, 1891- Serial No. 399,737. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMMAWALKER, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudsonand State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Drawers, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention more particularly relates to mens drawers, and to thatdescription of such drawers which are made of jean, flannel, or otherlike inelastic material as compared with drawers made of knittedfabrics. In these drawers, made of jean or other inelastic materials,the lower ends of the leg portions are usually provided with aslit inthem to permit of the easy entrance of the foot downand out througheither leg of the drawers, and to provide for the ready removal of thedrawers when undressing. This necessitates the use of some means ofclosing the slitted or enlarged portion of the lower ends of the legs ofthe drawers about the legs or ankles of the wearer to give them a snugor close fit and to prevent them from riding up the legs of the wearer.Among the ordinary appliances for this purpose are buttons, tying-tapes,buckles, and straps and other like expedients; but all of these are veryobjectionable and troublesome by reason of their liability to becomeuntied, detached, or broken, both during wear and in the laundering ofthe goods, while certain other elastic expedients are not durable andsome of them require to be removed before laundering and afterward to bereplaced at great trouble.

The object of my invention is to provide an easy, durable, and reliablemeans ofclosing the slitted loose or enlarging and contractible lowerends of the legs of the drawers, which will be simple and cheap, easilyreplaced when needed, and not require the need of a seamstress to sew orstitch them to their places, which will be found a great conveniencejtobachelors and others.

The invention consists in drawers having a special perforatedconstruction at the lower ends of the legs and providedwith a detachablegarter-like band, preferably elastic, having hooks at its ends adaptedto engage with said perforations or certain of them and constructed toadmit of the ready attachment and detachment of the ends of said bandwith and from the hook-fastenings and of letting out or drawing in theband to suit different girths or fits, substantially as hereinafterdescribed, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had'to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views from reverse sides of the lowerpart of one leg of a pair of drawers and leg of the person,in part, withthe garter-like fastening included in my invention applied. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal side view of the garter-like. band with its hook-fasteningsdetached from the drawers and spread out; and Figs. 4 and 5 areperspective views, upon a larger scale, of opposite ends of the bandwith the hook-fastenings attached.

A indicates the lower end portion of one leg of a pair of drawersprovided with the usual upright or longitudinal slit 1). This enlargingand contractible or opening and closing lower end portion of either legof the drawers is pro vided on the one side of itas, for instance, onopposite sides of the slits bwith eyelets c 0, arranged out of line witheach other, and such lower end portion of said leg is also preferablyprovided on the opposite side of it with button-holes d d.

B is the garter-like band, which may be a strip of elastic materialcommonly known as elastic. This band is provided with hookpieces 0 C atits opposite ends, adapted when passed around the leg to engage with theeyelets c c, and so hold the lower ends of the legs of the drawersclosed or close-fitting around the leg or ankle of the person. Saidgarterlike band is also passed through the buttonholes cl cl to keep itfrom dropping down asit is passed around the leg or ankle of the person.The ends of the detachable garter-like band B are also shown asconnected with the hook-pieces O O- in a readily-detachable manner, forwhich purpose I construct the back ends of the hook pieces or fasteningswith a slotted buckle-like frame f, having a center bar 9 provided withteeth 8 on its sides for the ends of the band B to engage with as saidband is threaded through the buckle -like frames f and to admit of theone or outer end of the band being slipped through the bucklelike frameof its hook-piece O, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, a sufficient distance toadmit of its being drawn or let out through its buckleframe f to take upor let out the band, as required, to suit difierent girths or fit of theleg of the person it is applied to. In ordinary use it will only benecessary to liberate the hook-piece connected with one end of the bandfrom the eyelet c, with which it engages whenever it is necessary toopen either leg of the drawers. No stitching of any kind is absolutelynecessary, and the elastic or band is readily renewed when required.

Having thusfully describedniy invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination,with drawers provided withslits in the ankle portions thereof, of an elastic band secured betweenits ends to the leg beyond the slit and having fastening devices at itsends to engage the drawers-leg at opposite sides of the slit when theends of the band cross the said slit, substantially as set forth.

2. Drawers having an eyelet c on each side of the slit at the lower partof the legs and button-holes d on the opposite side of the said lowerleg portion and provided with an elastic band passed through thebutton-holes and having a hook at each end adapted to engage theeyelets, substantially as herein shown and described.

"' EMMA WALKER. lVitnesses:

ALFRED LUROOTT, O. SEDowIcK.

